Chapter Summaries

Fu Ye left the Soul Realm after befriending Hun Tiandi and traveled with Zi Yan and Cai Die to the Pill Tower. In Sacred Pill City, he met Yao Chen and brought him to an auction house, where he repeatedly provoked the Medicine Venerable and left him suspecting Fu Ye was a pervert.

• Hun Tiandi gave Fu Ye a Soul Clan Elder Token, and Fu Ye left the Soul Realm with Zi Yan and Cai Die.
• Fu Ye reassured the girls that their actions had caused no trouble and took them to the Pill Region.
• In Sacred Pill City, Fu Ye recognized Yao Chen, who mistook him for a pervert and became angry when Zi Yan and Cai Die teased him.
• Fu Ye greeted Yao Chen as the Medicine Venerable and invited him to join them at the Pill Tower Auction House.
• Yao Chen asked whether Fu Ye had refined an Eighth-grade Pill, but Fu Ye teased him until he lost his temper and sat back down.
• Zi Yan lay in Fu Ye's arms and nibbled his neck, strengthening Yao Chen's suspicion that Fu Ye was a pervert.

Fu Ye’s Ancient Phoenix Merging Nether Pill drew the attention of powerful factions at the Pill Tower auction, while he and his companions met Xuan Yi. The chapter ended with Zi Yan admiring Xuan Yi’s figure.

• Fu Ye told Yao Chen that Zi Yan and Cai Die were magical beasts he had rescued and taken in as family.
• The Pill Tower announced Fu Ye’s pill as an eight-colored-tribulation Eighth-grade Pill, and Xuan Yi described its effects at the auction.
• Huang Xuan sent word to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan, while Soul Hall elders alerted Hun Miesheng about the pill.
• Hun Tiandi used a Ninth-grade Profound Pill to heal his hidden injuries, then learned of the auction’s Ancient Phoenix Merging Nether Pill and considered seeking it for the clan’s younger members.
• Fu Ye entered a VIP reception room with Zi Yan and Cai Die to meet Xuan Yi, and Zi Yan praised Xuan Yi’s figure.

Fu Ye met Xuan Yi, discussed how factions constrained people’s freedom, and spent the evening with her, Zi Yan, and Cai Die. After they shared a meal and Xuan Yi got drunk complaining about Yao Chen, the night ended with her still angry over his decades of avoidance.

• Xuan Yi invited Fu Ye to meet and confirmed that he had refined the pill that produced eight-colored pill lightning, then offered the Pill Tower’s friendship.
• At the auction, Fu Ye argued that Xuan Yi, Zi Yan, and Cai Die were bound by their circumstances, while Zi Yan said she did not feel forced to stay with him.
• Zi Yan and Cai Die spent time in Xuan Yi’s arms and Fu Ye’s embrace as the final auction began, and someone from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan bought Fu Ye’s pill.
• Fu Ye invited Xuan Yi to eat with him, ignored Yao Chen hiding outside the auction house, and watched Zi Yan and Cai Die eat seventh-grade pills.
• Xuan Yi drank several jars of wine and complained that Yao Chen had avoided her for over thirty years despite her affection for him.

Fu Ye drank with Xuan Yi as she lamented her ties to the Pill Tower and her feelings for Yao Chen, then took advantage of the aftermath to sleep with her. Xuan Yi woke after three days and found Fu Ye still in the guest room with Zi Yan and Cai Die.

• Xuan Yi told Fu Ye she could not leave the Pill Tower because it had provided the resources that helped her cultivate, and asked him to drink with her.
• Fu Ye drank with Xuan Yi until after four in the morning as she complained about Yao Chen avoiding her.
• The next day, Xuan Yi cried about Yao Chen and apologized to Fu Ye, who carried her to the bathroom and slept with her while Zi Yan and Cai Die rested behind a Time Barrier.
• Xuan Yi slept for three days and three nights before waking to find Zi Yan, Fu Ye, and Cai Die in the guest room.
• Fu Ye teased Xuan Yi about her figure as she realized he had not left.

Fu Ye watched Han Feng betray Yao Chen and escape with his soul trapped in a Storage Ring, then spent the next fifteen years building strength and living with Xuan Yi, Zi Yan, and Cai Die. At the Pill Tower, he told Xuan Kongzi how he had ended up with Xuan Yi.

• Han Feng poisoned Yao Chen, joined forces with Mugǔ Venerable, and stabbed his master as they tried to seize the Burning Art.
• Yao Chen broke free of the Soul Hall's chains with a Soul Shock, hid inside his Storage Ring, and escaped in a merchant caravan bound for the Northwest Continent.
• Fu Ye watched Yao Chen flee and chose not to intervene, while Han Feng returned to the Black Corner Region.
• Fifteen years later, Xuan Yi complained about Fu Ye's demands as he noted her hidden Dou Saint cultivation and the strength Zi Yan and Cai Die had gained.
• Xuan Kongzi asked how Fu Ye had won Xuan Yi over, and Fu Ye said he had forced himself on her after she drank and kept speaking of Yao Chen.

Fu Ye left Xuan Yi with a safeguard and traveled to Wutan City with Zi Yan and Cai Die, where he planned to take in Gu Yan, the Ancient Clan spy sent to investigate the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade. Gu Yan’s mission and restrictions were broken when Fu Ye met her, while Gu Yuan forgot why he had come to the Northwest Continent.

• Fu Ye told Xuan Kongzi that Yao Chen would return within fifty years, then reassured Feng Xian that Yao Chen was still alive and the truth would come later.
• Fu Ye told Xuan Yi he would be away but would return each month, then left with Zi Yan and Cai Die.
• Fu Ye explained that Gu Yan had been sent by Gu Yuan to infiltrate the Xiao Family and search for the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, under restrictions that would kill her if she resisted or revealed her mission.
• Gu Yuan sent Gu Yan toward the Xiao Family, but after Fu Ye affected his memory, Gu Yuan forgot his purpose and left the Northwest Continent.
• Fu Ye approached the dazed Gu Yan in Wutan City and shattered every restriction within her body with a touch to her brow.

Fu Ye kept Gu Yan by his side after freeing her from her mission, and she settled into life with him and her new older sisters, Zi Yan and Cai Die. Years later, he helped Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House, while Gu Yan joked about her as a wildflower and sought Fu Ye’s attention.

• Gu Yan questioned Fu Ye’s motives, and he made her stay with him and call him Master.
• Fu Ye assigned Zi Yan and Cai Die to discipline Gu Yan, and Gu Yan accepted them as her older sisters after learning their strength and age.
• After spring passed and autumn came, Ya Fei massaged Fu Ye at the Mittel Auction House in exchange for a pill to improve her prospects.
• Zi Yan, Cai Die, and Gu Yan entered Fu Ye’s room, and Gu Yan teased him about keeping Ya Fei as a wildflower.
• Fu Ye gave Ya Fei a bottle of fourth-grade Qi Gathering Powder and sent her back to work.
• Fu Ye embraced and kissed Zi Yan, Cai Die, and the jealous Gu Yan, who said she wanted to spend more time with him.

Fu Ye joined the Xiao Family as an honorary elder after selling a Qi Gathering Powder, and the family built him a villa on its Back Mountain. After Xiao Yan’s mother died, Xiao Yan asked Fu Ye to take him as a disciple, but Fu Ye refused and told him to cultivate until his destined master appeared.

• Xiao Zhan bought Fu Ye’s Qi Gathering Powder for six hundred thousand gold coins, and Fu Ye gave Ya Fei money before Xiao Zhan recognized him and invited him to become an honorary elder of the Xiao Family.
• Fu Ye accepted the honorary position on the conditions that he would not refine pills for the Xiao Family and that they would provide him with a suitable residence.
• Xiao Zhan built Fu Ye a villa on the Back Mountain, then warned Xiao Yan not to provoke Fu Ye or the three women living with him.
• Two years later, Xiao Yan’s mother died of illness, and Fu Ye concluded that the world’s Heavenly Dao had made her death irreversible.
• Xiao Yan asked Fu Ye to accept him as a disciple, but Fu Ye refused, saying Xiao Yan should cultivate on his own until the right master appeared.

After Xiao Yan failed to persuade Fu Ye to take him as a disciple, Xiao Zhan encouraged him to work hard as Xun Er arrived at the Xiao Family. Zi Yan, Cai Die, and Gu Yan took a liking to Xun Er and invited her to live with them on the Back Mountain, which she accepted.

• Fu Ye refused to take Xiao Yan as a disciple and flicked him away when he kept asking.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that becoming strong required effective effort and promised to push him onward.
• Gu Yuan brought six-year-old Xun Er to the Xiao Family, and Xiao Zhan welcomed her into a secluded courtyard.
• Zi Yan, Cai Die, and Gu Yan visited Xun Er, and Zi Yan invited her to live with them on the Back Mountain.
• Xun Er accepted Zi Yan's invitation to live with the three sisters.

Zi Yan, Cai Die, and Gu Yan brought Xun Er to Fu Ye's residence, where he recognized her background and gave her special tea to improve her physique and control the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame. After drinking it, Xun Er's cultivation began rising rapidly, and she reached Dou Qi - First Stage.

• Xiao Zhan warned Xiao Yan that Xun Er had a complicated background and urged him to work far harder if he wanted to pursue her.
• Zi Yan and the others brought Xun Er and her luggage to Fu Ye's residence, where Fu Ye assigned her an empty room.
• Fu Ye identified the unabsorbed power of an Eighth-grade Pill in Xun Er's body and gave her tea to strengthen her physique and control the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xun Er drank the tea, and the flame inside her calmed as gray steam rose from her body.
• After an hour, Xun Er awoke and reached Dou Qi - First Stage as her solid Dou Qi continued to increase.

Xun Er’s cultivation aptitude transformed after she drank the Ninth-grade Profound Pill, and she rapidly rose to Nine-star Dou Huang. Fu Ye explained that he was waiting for an old friend in the Northwest Continent, while Xiao Yan finally condensed a Qi Vortex after two months of cultivation.

• Xun Er absorbed the pill’s effects and advanced from having no cultivation to Nine-star Dou Huang, while Fu Ye said her talent surpassed Zi Yan and the others’.
• Xun Er mastered the Imperial Seal Art and sensed how far Fu Ye and the others exceeded her in strength.
• Fu Ye told Xun Er that he was waiting for an old friend and had imprisoned her Peak Nine-star Dou Huang servant in the Back Mountain, binding his soul to keep him silent.
• Xiao Yan condensed a Qi Vortex after two months of cultivation, becoming the youngest in the Xiao Family to do so faster than Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Xun Er was well in the Back Mountain and recalled the harsh training he had endured there.

Fu Ye watched Xiao Yan rise to become the Xiao Family’s brightest young talent while Xun Er secretly reached nine-star Dou Zun without trying. As Xiao Yu prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, she hugged Fu Ye, making Xun Er jealous.

• Fu Ye recognized Xiao Yan’s Qi Vortex, heard that his Storage Ring had belonged to his mother, and offered to give him pointers while warning him to stay away from the Back Mountain.
• Six years later, Xiao Yan tested as a high-rank one-star Dou Zhe, while Xun Er revealed to herself and the reader that she had reached nine-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu told Fu Ye she was leaving for Jia Nan Academy, and he encouraged her while recalling the cultivation help he had given her.
• Xiao Yu asked to hug Fu Ye, then ran off after embracing him and promising to visit every year.
• Xun Er questioned Fu Ye about Xiao Yu’s scent, threw herself into his arms, and protested when he teased her by calling her stinky.

At Xiao Yan’s celebration banquet, Fu Ye explained that he had settled with the Xiao Family only because of Xiao Zhan’s invitation and was waiting in Wutan City for an old acquaintance. Fu Ye warned Xiao Yan to steady his heart and said he would not help him this time; days later, Xiao Yan discovered that his Dou Qi was mysteriously decreasing.

• Xiao Yan toasted Fu Ye at the banquet and asked why a Fourth-grade Alchemist had joined the Xiao Family as a guest elder.
• Fu Ye told Xiao Yan that he had come to Wutan City to wait for an old acquaintance, while Xiao Zhan revealed that Fu Ye had looked unchanged for more than twenty years.
• Xiao Yan asked Fu Ye how strong he could become, and Fu Ye said his talent might take him to Peak Dou Huang without a fortunate opportunity.
• Fu Ye flicked Xiao Yan on the forehead, warned him against impatience, and told him to endure future setbacks without seeking revenge on Fu Ye.
• After several days of diligent cultivation, Xiao Yan found that the Dou Qi in his body was decreasing instead of increasing.

Xiao Yan’s cultivation kept declining as a soul in his Storage Ring absorbed his Dou Qi, and Fu Ye told him the condition would last ten years. After Xiao Yan regressed to the seventh stage at the Coming-of-Age Ceremony, he endured his clan’s ridicule and vowed to keep cultivating toward becoming a powerful expert.

• Xiao Yan went to the Back Mountain after half a year of declining cultivation and asked Fu Ye how long his condition would last.
• Fu Ye told Xiao Yan the condition would last ten years, and Xiao Yan fainted from despair.
• Zi Yan, Xun Er, and the others sensed a weak soul in Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring absorbing his Dou Qi but stayed silent.
• Xiao Yan awoke in his room and vowed to end the condition early through relentless cultivation.
• At the Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Xiao Yan was assessed at the seventh stage of Dou Qi, and his clansmen mocked his decline.
• Xiao Zhan visited Xiao Yan afterward, and Xiao Yan explained that Fu Ye had said he could still become a Dou emperor.

Xiao Yan’s cultivation remained at three stages of Dou Qi while Xiao Mei and Xun Er grew stronger, and Fu Ye watched events unfold around him. As Nalan Yanran arrived at the Xiao Family to break her engagement to Xiao Yan, Fu Ye and the others gathered outside the reception hall to watch.

• Xiao Mei was announced as a twelve-year-old one-star Dou Zhe, while Xiao Yan congratulated her and spoke with Fu Ye about his own declining cultivation.
• Xiao Yan was tested at the coming-of-age ceremony and was announced as having three stages of Dou Qi, drawing scorn from the gathered clan members.
• Xun Er told Fu Ye that the soul inside Xiao Yan’s ring was showing signs of awakening, and Fu Ye said he would not interfere.
• Fu Ye and Xun Er waited outside the reception hall with others as Xiao Yan arrived and learned that a Yunlan Sect girl had come to break an engagement.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Zhan that her engagement to Xiao Yan, arranged before their births, had been unfair to her from the start.

Nalan Yanran offered Xiao Zhan a three-year agreement and tried to persuade him to accept Yunlan Sect resources, but he refused the gifts while agreeing that Xiao Yan would go to the Yunlan Sect in three years. After Xiao Yan learned of the broken engagement, Nalan Yanran paused to question Zi Yan and the others about their comments on her talent.

• Nalan Yanran proposed that Xiao Yan could challenge her at the Yunlan Sect in three years to preserve their marriage agreement.
• Ge Ye displayed Yunlan Sect treasures and pressured Xiao Zhan to accept them, but Xiao Zhan refused the resources and said Xiao Yan would visit the Yunlan Sect in three years.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yan she hoped he would let her go, leaving him confused, while Zi Yan, Gu Yan, Cai Die, and Xun Er discussed Nalan Yanran's talent.
• Fu Ye scolded the four girls for discussing Nalan Yanran within earshot, and Zi Yan told Nalan Yanran to call her Big Sister for an explanation.
• Xiao Yan stormed out after hearing about the broken engagement, but he backed down when Zi Yan's presence frightened him.

Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan agreed to a three-year challenge before she left the Xiao Family. Yao Chen revealed that he had absorbed Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi for three years and promised to help him recover, while Fu Ye watched their argument.

• Xiao Yan accepted Nalan Yanran’s challenge to fight her in three years, and she left after chatting with Zi Yan and the others.
• Xun Er asked Fu Ye about Nalan Yanran, and Fu Ye explained that she was the Young Master of the Yunlan Sect.
• Yao Chen appeared to Xiao Yan from the ring and revealed that he had absorbed Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi over the past three years.
• Xiao Yan blamed Yao Chen for his lost cultivation and the hardships he had faced, then demanded that Yao Chen restore him to seven stages of Dou Qi within a year.
• Fu Ye watched as Xiao Yan and Yao Chen argued and reached their agreement.

After Xiao Yan accepted Yao Chen as his master, Fu Ye revealed that he had known Yao Chen for decades and had witnessed the event that left him weakened. Fu Ye departed with Zi Yan, Cai Die, Gu Yan, and Xun Er, leaving Yao Chen to send Xiao Yan to gather costly medicinal ingredients.

• Xiao Yan believed Yao Chen was an alchemist after seeing his Bone Spirit Cold Flame and knelt to become his disciple.
• Fu Ye emerged unharmed from the flames, greeted Yao Chen, and admitted he had been present when Yao Chen met with misfortune.
• Fu Ye explained that he would only interfere with fate if his mood allowed, while he and Yao Chen avoided discussing the Central Continent in front of Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan, Cai Die, Gu Yan, and Xun Er arrived, and Yao Chen greeted Zi Yan and Cai Die as old acquaintances.
• After Fu Ye and the others left, Yao Chen gave Xiao Yan a list of ingredients, and Xiao Yan protested that he could not afford them.

Xiao Yan sought a thousand gold coins to fund his cultivation, and Fu Ye lent him the money after hearing his predicament. Three months passed as Xun Er continued investigating the Xiao Family’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, suspecting the original had been lost or replaced.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen struggled to find a way to obtain cultivation funds, so Yao Chen told Xiao Yan to borrow from Fu Ye.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen visited Fu Ye and found him being pampered by Xun Er, Cai Die, Gu Yan, and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Fu Ye for a thousand gold coins, and Fu Ye agreed to lend them as a favor to Yao Chen.
• Fu Ye explained that Xiao Zhan had spent heavily on Xiao Yan because of his engagement to Nalan Yanran, leaving the clan elders resentful after Xiao Yan lost his Dou Qi.
• Xun Er said she had found a convincing imitation of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade but suspected the original had been lost or sold.
• Three months passed.

Three months later, Fu Ye spoke with Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House, then visited Yao Chen while Xiao Yan trained and revealed Xun Er’s extraordinary strength. The chapter ended with Fu Ye telling Yao Chen that he, Zi Yan, Cai Die, and Gu Yan had all become Dou Shengs.

• Ya Fei told Fu Ye she wanted to follow him beyond the Mittel Auction House, and he said he might take her along in the future.
• Xiao Yan practiced Eight Level Collapse after three months of physical training, and Yao Chen predicted he could reach the seventh stage of Dou Qi by next year’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Fu Ye reassured Yao Chen that Feng Xian was keeping Starfall Pavilion safe and confirmed that he and Xuan Yi were together.
• Fu Ye told Yao Chen that Xun Er was a fourth-change Dou Zun at the Peak Nine-star Dou Zun level and that he expected to help her reach Half-Saint within four years.
• Fu Ye revealed that he, Zi Yan, and Cai Die were Dou Shengs, while Gu Yan had recently become a one-star Dou Sheng.